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The Psychiatric Hospital as a Small Society (Commonwealth Fund Publications, 132) by William A. Caudill is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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By direct and open observations of ward life, of administrative and staff conferences, and by "pictorial test interview" (14 pictures depicting selected aspects of hospital life after the T.A.T. method by Murray) the author, a social anthropologist, describes and summarizes his findings pertaining to the nature of the social system reflected in the Yale Psychiatric Unit (1951-1952). The book is made up of 5 sections as follows: Problem and setting, Interrelations in the hospital, Perceptions of the hospital, Administration in the hospital (a small group analysis), and Implications. The 2 concluding chapters (13, 14) discuss the results in overview and in relation to the development of the specialty of clinical anthropology. The 14 "hospital pictures" are reproduced following p. 136. 11 p. references. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved)

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Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.

Author
William A. Caudill
Publisher
Harvard University Press Reprint
Published
1958
Language
EN
ISBN
9780674598720
Category
nonfiction
Subjects
Medical, Psychology, Others

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